id:			156111
accession number:	1991.44
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.44
updated:		2025-08-08 00:16:15.252000

The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri), 1856. Sakai Basai (Japanese, dates unknown). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; painting only: 128.6 x 56.5 cm (50 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.); including mounting: 193.7 x 77.5 cm (76 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1991.44

title:				The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri)
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creation date:			1856
creation date earliest:		1856
creation date latest:		1856
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creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Sakai Basai (Japanese, dates unknown)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 128.6 x 56.5 cm (50 5/8 x 22 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 193.7 x 77.5 cm (76 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-01-02T05:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1991
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1991–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. "Selected 1991 Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 72; Mentioned: p. 83
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350

	Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
	page number: 	p. 113
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